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Episode 40-Mississippi State Bulldog Football Preview · Johnny's World

• 0:02
  SPEAKER_00: Coming to you live from the Johnny Packer Eyewear Studios in fabulous Dark Vegas, Mississippi.
• 0:09
  SPEAKER_00: Please welcome our co-host, the best I doctor this side of the Mississippi, BW.
• 0:18
  SPEAKER_00: And now welcome a true hero, a CF Warrior, whose favorite motto in life is Just Keep Living.
• 0:27
  SPEAKER_00: Here's Johnny.
• 0:38
  SPEAKER_01: Okay, welcome to a new episode of the Johnny's World Podcast.
• 0:42
  SPEAKER_01: Johnny here with my partner in crime, BW.
• 0:45
  SPEAKER_01: What's going on?
• 0:48
  SPEAKER_02: We're getting close to college football season.
• 0:51
  SPEAKER_01: That's right.
• 0:52
  SPEAKER_01: We got a special episode today.
• 0:53
  SPEAKER_01: Just gonna be me and BW talking about some college football here and what we have in store for the season coming up.
• 0:59
  SPEAKER_01: It's our favorite time of the year, and and uh everybody here in Starbucks getting riled up, we're getting ready for the ready for the season to start.
• 1:07
  SPEAKER_01: Students are back on campus.
• 1:08
  SPEAKER_01: Uh had uh sorority bid day the other day.
• 1:11
  SPEAKER_01: I took Bo uh around the sorority houses.
• 1:13
  SPEAKER_01: Uh yeah, Bo Bo meet some ladies.
• 1:16
  SPEAKER_01: He's always he's the chick magnet, so uh so that was pretty cool.
• 1:20
  SPEAKER_01: So town's coming alive and schools back in session, and it's about time for Mike Leach and the boys to kick it, kick it off.
• 1:30
  SPEAKER_01: So uh pretty excited about everything coming up this season.
• 1:33
  SPEAKER_02: Yes, sir.
• 1:34
  SPEAKER_02: So am I.
• 1:35
  SPEAKER_02: Um well I think today we're planning, we're just gonna we've got some things we want to roll out for the football season.
• 1:42
  SPEAKER_02: We'll still plan to have some guests on the podcast here and there, but Johnny and I plan to get on once a week and talk about the games that are coming up on that week, and we'll we'll give you all our predictions of what you you know, what we think is gonna happen that week in that game for Mississippi State.
• 1:59
  SPEAKER_02: And then we'll also talk about like the teams that we're playing.
• 2:03
  SPEAKER_02: We'll we'll talk about some memories we might have, some games we we may have gone to in the past, some things that would have happened, some places we've been in in certain towns like Baton Rouge and uh some people we may have encountered.
• 2:15
  SPEAKER_02: Uh, you know, I'll we'll try to come up with some funny stories for for things that happen with that.
• 2:19
  SPEAKER_02: And so I think that'll be fun to talk a little bit about during the season there.
• 2:23
  SPEAKER_02: And um, that's one thing I always love is just like knowing Friday afternoon and you know, planning to go to a game.
• 2:30
  SPEAKER_02: Uh, some of my fondest memories are just like getting ready to to go on a road trip or do something like that to a game.
• 2:37
  SPEAKER_02: So hopefully want to relive some of those memories.
• 2:40
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 2:41
  SPEAKER_01: Um, and and if y'all are out there listening to this podcast, if you listen to the podcast we did last Thanksgiving about the egg bowl, it's kind of gonna be kind of like that.
• 2:49
  SPEAKER_01: You know, I went through 30 years of egg bowls, uh, memories from each one I had for 30 years.
• 2:54
  SPEAKER_01: So we're probably gonna do something to that extent for each opponent that we play.
• 2:58
  SPEAKER_01: If we played them before, me and BW have gone to a game or that city like you're talking about, and just relive it because the game's cool.
• 3:05
  SPEAKER_01: We love to talk about the games, but man, the making the memories that we've had through the years that these things things stick out.
• 3:11
  SPEAKER_01: Like when you see a certain game, you can remember, hey, I was sitting there when that happened, or someone fell over, or you know, there's just always something funny we can always bring into, you know, a random fan came up and we talked and had a funny story of that, so that's always fun.
• 3:25
  SPEAKER_01: So it'll be a lot of fun rehashing the old memories and and uh giving our predictions on the season.
• 3:32
  SPEAKER_01: And and uh, like you said, man, when you're in college, you the the Thursday, man, that kicks off the weekend in college, man.
• 3:38
  SPEAKER_01: You get Thursday night, man.
• 3:39
  SPEAKER_01: It's it's great to roll, and those are some fond memories right there.
• 3:42
  SPEAKER_01: And kind of like I feel like living in Starbucks now, it's kind of like that for me now because Thursday night is when the quarterback club starts.
• 3:49
  SPEAKER_01: And uh, haven't been in two years because of COVID.
• 3:52
  SPEAKER_01: So I'm I'm pretty excited to get back in.
• 3:54
  SPEAKER_01: And we uh the first Thursday before the season is gonna be our first one.
• 3:58
  SPEAKER_01: Mike Leach is gonna be the uh guest speaker, so uh bringing out the power for the first one.
• 4:03
  SPEAKER_01: So that'll be cool to hear hear him talk, see what he all he has to say.
• 4:07
  SPEAKER_01: So uh, so yeah, Thursday nights, man.
• 4:09
  SPEAKER_01: That's when I get into it, and and and and then Friday, you know, um, especially if it's a home game, everything's on campus, is all is all everybody's excited and stuff and the setup, you know, and the junction and everything.
• 4:21
  SPEAKER_01: And then and then Saturday's here.
• 4:22
  SPEAKER_01: So uh yeah, but man, I love it.
• 4:25
  SPEAKER_01: It's best time of the year.
• 4:26
  SPEAKER_01: Roadbound Stadium.
• 4:27
  SPEAKER_01: Uh y'all out there listening have have probably read it on Twitter and everything about what they're doing with the upper deck on the west side, it's called the Balcony.
• 4:35
  SPEAKER_01: Interesting.
• 4:35
  SPEAKER_01: I don't think any other college campus has uh has this at their stadium.
• 4:39
  SPEAKER_01: So um it'll be interesting to see if this is a success and if other stadiums uh throughout the country come through and do it, you know, kind of like the left field loss at New De Noble.
• 4:48
  SPEAKER_01: No one ever had that.
• 4:49
  SPEAKER_01: So um it's pretty neat to be the first to do something like that.
• 4:53
  SPEAKER_01: So it's gonna be exactly a redreaking refrigerators up there.
• 4:57
  SPEAKER_02: So I know I saw that.
• 4:58
  SPEAKER_02: I I was talking to a guy yesterday and he was saying, you know, that those tickets usually aren't selling that well during the games because um, you know, not many people want to sit up there and they'd rather just sit at home and watch it on TV if they had to sit up there, especially in bad weather and stuff.
• 5:16
  SPEAKER_02: So hopefully this will put put a few more people up there in that section and um you know give give people something to look forward to.
• 5:23
  SPEAKER_02: And it it sounds like it already sold out.
• 5:25
  SPEAKER_02: So I mean, hopefully it's uh it uh it has already sold out.
• 5:29
  SPEAKER_01: Matter of fact, I had a meeting on uh in Starbucks not too long ago and John Cohen was speaking and he was kind of telling us about this and said that you know, in days in today's society, you know, 30 years ago, games weren't televised.
• 5:42
  SPEAKER_01: So you either went to the game, you listened to the game, or you you don't you don't know anything about it.
• 5:46
  SPEAKER_01: But now every game is televised, and you know, at the beginning of the of September, August, end of August, it's 100 degrees outside, it's hot.
• 5:55
  SPEAKER_01: People don't want to leave their house when they have the recliner, their air conditioned, the TV, big screen TV.
• 5:59
  SPEAKER_01: So and they're fighting against uh that right there, keeping what how are you gonna get butts out of the recliners into the stadium?
• 6:06
  SPEAKER_01: You know, uh it's not like be so so um so the stadium wasn't filling up because of reasons like that.
• 6:12
  SPEAKER_01: So they're they decided to do that, take seats out at the upper deck and and create something different like this, um, like more of like a tailgate environment.
• 6:22
  SPEAKER_01: So um the one bad thing out is it's just so high up there, you know.
• 6:26
  SPEAKER_01: I don't know what it would be like, but it might be cool, it might be a just a different perspective to see the game.
• 6:32
  SPEAKER_01: I'll be interested and see how it looks.
• 6:33
  SPEAKER_01: I know they'll be talking about it on TV all the time, and and um takes off and other stadiums follow suit with it.
• 6:39
  SPEAKER_02: So exactly.
• 6:41
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, and you know, you were talking about something a minute ago.
• 6:43
  SPEAKER_02: Uh Thursday is the start of the weekend.
• 6:46
  SPEAKER_02: I remember when I was in school there, so we were both there uh from 2000, 2004, and back when it was still malfunctioned junction and um there wasn't all the tailgate, you know, you couldn't really tailgate there because the the streets were there and everything was there.
• 7:02
  SPEAKER_02: But but I remember there was that one little strip of land like right by the stadium there on the south side where all those RVs would pull in, and those RVs would start pulling up on Thursday afternoon and start putting up their tents and grilling.
• 7:17
  SPEAKER_02: And I said, Man, when I'm 65 years old, I hope I'm one of those guys pulling up in those RVs on Thursday, and they're there from like Thursday till Sunday, just right next to the stadium there, and then they then they pull out Sunday afternoon and then they're coming back the next Thursday.
• 7:32
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, and and they and they go.
• 7:34
  SPEAKER_01: Uh, I talked to a guy the other day that he hadn't missed a uh home or road game since 1972.
• 7:40
  SPEAKER_01: So some of these people, man, they when they have the RVs, they go on the road too, like they follow them like like it's a concert or something every weekend, like the PGA tour or something.
• 7:49
  SPEAKER_01: They follow them every everywhere they go.
• 7:51
  SPEAKER_01: Uh, so it's gonna be interesting.
• 7:53
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, the second game of the year is in Tucson, Arizona, man.
• 7:55
  SPEAKER_01: So they're gonna yeah, okay, so they're doing that.
• 7:58
  SPEAKER_01: They've got a long drive ahead of them on their car.
• 8:00
  SPEAKER_01: Hey, if people are gonna make it, I'm sure they will.
• 8:03
  SPEAKER_02: Exactly.
• 8:04
  SPEAKER_02: Yep.
• 8:05
  SPEAKER_02: Well, uh, one thing we want to talk about too, before we'll get into some predictions for the season, um, we'd like to start a group, uh like a pick them group for all the listeners out there so we can have a little bit more engagement in the community and everything because we know there's a lot of people that are listening because we hit 8,000 downloads a couple weeks ago, which is awesome.
• 8:24
  SPEAKER_02: So um, if y'all are listening and you kind of want to, you know, chip in and be more part of the community and and kind of get to know some of the other listeners and stuff like that, we're gonna start a weekly Pick'em.
• 8:37
  SPEAKER_02: And we haven't decided what platform we're gonna use, like Yahoo! ESPN or something like that.
• 8:42
  SPEAKER_02: Um, and then we'll try to have some weekly prizes.
• 8:45
  SPEAKER_02: We'll probably give away some coffee to the winners every week and then see if we can come up with like a grand prize for the end of the season.
• 8:53
  SPEAKER_02: But um, if you're interested in joining the pick'em, send an email to Johnny Packer Corp.
• 9:00
  SPEAKER_02: So that's J O H N N Y C O R P um Johnny Packer Corp at gmail.com.
• 9:10
  SPEAKER_02: And just say, hey, I'm interested in doing the Pick'em, and we'll kind of start accumulating a list of people together and try to get something set up before the season.
• 9:19
  SPEAKER_02: So, but I think I butchered that the spelling, but it's Johnny Packercorp at gmail.com.
• 9:26
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, and and I mean there's no entry fee, I don't think, right, to do this.
• 9:30
  SPEAKER_01: Uh-huh.
• 9:30
  SPEAKER_01: So there's no you have nothing to lose.
• 9:33
  SPEAKER_01: If you want to do this, back if you're uh a loyal listener to the podcast, we really appreciate it.
• 9:38
  SPEAKER_01: And uh, so this is just a way to to get involved and uh and have fun with it.
• 9:43
  SPEAKER_01: And like I said, there were there are incentives on it.
• 9:45
  SPEAKER_01: You can get some of the cool coffee that Brandon has on the website that we've been selling so uh for CF.
• 9:51
  SPEAKER_01: So so um, and then there'll be a grand prize.
• 9:53
  SPEAKER_01: So yeah, it costs you nothing and to join in uh and we'll have some fun and we'll find through the season and we'll be talking about these games and and leading up to each week and uh who we think will win, and then and then we make our picks and discuss them the next week.
• 10:07
  SPEAKER_01: It'll be it's a fun way to get the season, you know.
• 10:09
  SPEAKER_01: Whenever you uh football season's here, that's always cool, man.
• 10:13
  SPEAKER_01: I remember when I was a kid, I always want to look at the top 25 polls every Monday, you know, see see who's all ranked, and and so the pick-ums and all that stuff, it's just kind of it adds to the fun that's already there.
• 10:23
  SPEAKER_01: So uh, so this should be really fun to to get everyone involved with it.
• 10:27
  SPEAKER_01: So I hope you will take the time to uh once you get that to send them that link, uh send them that email, say you want to involve, and then we'll we'll uh update you on how to join in before the season starts.
• 10:37
  SPEAKER_02: Yes, sir.
• 10:39
  SPEAKER_02: Well, um Johnny, I I've got the schedule pulled up here and I've been looking at it, and I think this is like a popular prediction probably for the for the team.
• 10:51
  SPEAKER_02: But you know, so if we've got we've got 12 games and I'm looking at it, um I feel like we can probably win eight of those if things go as they should.
• 11:03
  SPEAKER_02: We might could steal another one and make it nine.
• 11:06
  SPEAKER_02: Um if if we lose one, we shouldn't lose, maybe we'll we'll win seven is kind of what I'm what I'm thinking as far as that.
• 11:14
  SPEAKER_02: And um so I'd say I'll just say we're gonna be eight and four is gonna be my my prediction there.
• 11:20
  SPEAKER_02: And I'll I'll go down and break it down a little bit here in a second.
• 11:24
  SPEAKER_02: But what do you what do you think?
• 11:26
  SPEAKER_01: Man, you're right on the money.
• 11:27
  SPEAKER_01: That was my prediction as well.
• 11:28
  SPEAKER_01: But you know, uh Mike Cleach meant so I love Mike Leach.
• 11:31
  SPEAKER_01: Not he seems like one of those by those polarizing figures, either you love him or hate him, you know, in our in our fan base, it seems like.
• 11:38
  SPEAKER_01: But I've always been a Mike Cleach fan before he came to Mississippi's Day.
• 11:41
  SPEAKER_01: That's when I wanted to come, so he came.
• 11:42
  SPEAKER_01: So I feel like I take a little credit for that.
• 11:45
  SPEAKER_01: It's funny, the night before he got uh hired, I posted a picture that I'd met him in LaMurier bookstore in Jackson, and I was like, This is the guy we need.
• 11:52
  SPEAKER_01: And then lo and behold, he gets hired the next day.
• 11:54
  SPEAKER_01: So uh, so yeah, I've always been a huge fan of his.
• 11:58
  SPEAKER_01: And and but the Mike Cleach effect, man, that's like you know, when Dan Mullen was our coach, uh, you knew the games were gonna win and you knew the games were gonna lose.
• 12:06
  SPEAKER_01: It was as easy as that.
• 12:08
  SPEAKER_01: He always beat who was supposed to be, and he always lost to who he was supposed to lose.
• 12:11
  SPEAKER_01: With Mike Leach, man, the Mike Leach's effect is you have no idea.
• 12:15
  SPEAKER_01: You'll you can lose to Memphis and then he can beat Texas AM on the road like last year.
• 12:19
  SPEAKER_01: You never know.
• 12:20
  SPEAKER_01: Exactly.
• 12:20
  SPEAKER_01: You're always gonna count on a game on the schedule that he's gonna drop, that everybody's gonna be mad he should have won that game, and there's always gonna be an upset on there that you had no no chance, and then he wins.
• 12:30
  SPEAKER_01: So, so uh that's that's kind of the way I look at it with Mike Leach effect, and and so I'm going eight and four also.
• 12:38
  SPEAKER_01: Um, you know, there's a lot of swing games on the schedule.
• 12:43
  SPEAKER_01: Uh, there's a few.
• 12:45
  SPEAKER_01: So if things go bad, it could really get really bad on the schedule.
• 12:49
  SPEAKER_01: But if things go good, it could go really good.
• 12:52
  SPEAKER_01: So it really depends on on uh on how we start out and you know and finish strong.
• 12:59
  SPEAKER_01: The the thing that people fan base here is so uh rabid about so mad is we can't drop a third straight egg ball.
• 13:06
  SPEAKER_01: People are furious about that.
• 13:08
  SPEAKER_01: If you look at Mike Leach's record at Washington State versus University of Washington, he did not have success in beating his rivals, but he had great seasons at Washington State.
• 13:19
  SPEAKER_01: He turned the team around, he was coach of the year one year.
• 13:21
  SPEAKER_01: So um it's you know, the way I look at it now, I used to be, you know, people who know me know how much my hatred for old miss has always been.
• 13:31
  SPEAKER_01: But man, I've kind of mellowed out through the years when we got I'm a big fan, a huge fan of Lane Kiffin.
• 13:36
  SPEAKER_01: So I like Lane Kiffin and Mike Leach.
• 13:38
  SPEAKER_01: So it's and and I feel and the two of them like each other, so it's not like the toxic uh freeze and Mullin was and all that sort of stuff.
• 13:44
  SPEAKER_01: So it's not as like do or die.
• 13:47
  SPEAKER_01: Like I mean, I people probably still feel that.
• 13:50
  SPEAKER_01: Don't get me wrong.
• 13:51
  SPEAKER_01: People still like I don't if we win the egg ball, that'd be great.
• 13:54
  SPEAKER_01: But I'm not gonna if we if we have a great season, we drop the egg ball for the third straight year.
• 13:59
  SPEAKER_01: I don't care.
• 13:59
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, we had a great season and we won eight or nine.
• 14:02
  SPEAKER_01: Say, say we win nine games or heck 10 games and lose the egg ball.
• 14:05
  SPEAKER_01: That's a heck of a year.
• 14:06
  SPEAKER_01: I don't care about the egg ball.
• 14:07
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, there's still gonna be people.
• 14:09
  SPEAKER_01: If we go 11 and 1 and lose the egg ball, they're gonna be furious.
• 14:12
  SPEAKER_01: Mike Lewis, I want to fire.
• 14:13
  SPEAKER_01: No, so it's just you can't please everybody, but I'd much rather every year um right now, the old me, old John Clark years ago would not say this when I'm about to say, but the new the I guess the mature John Clark would say this like, I'd rather have a successful year, eight, nine, ten wins, and then if you lose the egg ball, so be it.
• 14:33
  SPEAKER_01: You know, I'd rather have a successful year than go six and six and win the egg ball, you know.
• 14:38
  SPEAKER_01: No, that's the way I look at it nowadays.
• 14:40
  SPEAKER_01: But uh, but with that with that saying that, I think we're gonna go eight, four.
• 14:44
  SPEAKER_01: That's my prediction.
• 14:45
  SPEAKER_01: If things go right, you know, but if injuries happen or we lose the games where it's supposed to, and the minimum shifts, it could go really bad.
• 14:53
  SPEAKER_01: So uh, but you know, this the sky's the limit.
• 14:57
  SPEAKER_01: You you never know.
• 14:58
  SPEAKER_01: But I feel I feel good about the team coming back.
• 15:01
  SPEAKER_01: You know, you can't use the excuse anymore, like we're a young team and all that better quarterback who is awesome.
• 15:08
  SPEAKER_01: And I mean, he he's a record-setting quarterback with Mike Leech offense, great receivers and running back.
• 15:13
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, we're we're good, so there's no excuse of saying wait to the future, look to the future.
• 15:18
  SPEAKER_01: We got it right now.
• 15:19
  SPEAKER_01: So this is the time to do it.
• 15:21
  SPEAKER_01: Hopefully, the refs will not screw us over like last year.
• 15:24
  SPEAKER_01: I know people don't say, Oh, it shouldn't have been that situation, shouldn't have been that situation.
• 15:27
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, you're right, it shouldn't have been that situation, but uh, but what happened?
• 15:30
  SPEAKER_01: We saw it with our own eyes.
• 15:31
  SPEAKER_01: The refs screwed us against Memphis with a kick with that special, you know, we can't have anything happen like that in the year.
• 15:38
  SPEAKER_01: Uh so it's just uh it's it's it's gonna be uh it's gonna be an interesting season for sure.
• 15:44
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, I know, you know, it's it's funny.
• 15:47
  SPEAKER_02: Like I I try to tell myself that I'm not gonna be mad that we lose to Ole Miss, and that even if we have eight or nine wins, I'm still gonna be happy about that season.
• 15:58
  SPEAKER_02: But uh, but I think you know, if if if we're looking to get our seventh win or looking to get our sixth win, and we need to beat Ole Miss, and then we lose to Ole Miss, that's that's gonna be harder.
• 16:09
  SPEAKER_02: Um but but you know, I'm 40 now, and Johnny, you're you're 41, right?
• 16:15
  SPEAKER_02: So you know, now that now that we're a little older, I've met a lot of Ole Miss people that that I really like.
• 16:22
  SPEAKER_02: And I have a this this customer named Tom Taylor.
• 16:26
  SPEAKER_02: He's he's in his mid 80s and he's a big old miss fan.
• 16:29
  SPEAKER_02: And and every time he comes in, he says, Is that is that bulldog back there?
• 16:33
  SPEAKER_02: I need to talk to the Bulldog.
• 16:34
  SPEAKER_02: And and he sends the he sends emails, he signed sign the rebel.
• 16:38
  SPEAKER_02: And uh, and so I mean for for him, like you know, I'm I just I I imagine him sitting in his recliner watching all this and and how excited he is, and they win.
• 16:49
  SPEAKER_02: And so I you know, I say I can't I can't dislike them when I think about people like that.
• 16:53
  SPEAKER_02: So right.
• 16:54
  SPEAKER_02: Um but so anyways, I mean I I'm gonna look at this schedule and and I'll just kind of tell you I think it's gonna go here.
• 17:03
  SPEAKER_02: So okay.
• 17:04
  SPEAKER_02: Just looking, I feel like we're gonna start 4-0.
• 17:08
  SPEAKER_02: Um you know, we we we have some road games there.
• 17:13
  SPEAKER_02: I think it's gonna be it's gonna be weird to be in Arizona um playing at 10 p.m.
• 17:19
  SPEAKER_02: It's kind of a weird time.
• 17:21
  SPEAKER_02: Um, but I feel like we have a have a chance to to win that one.
• 17:26
  SPEAKER_02: So I'm saying we go four and oh.
• 17:29
  SPEAKER_02: And then I think we're gonna lose four in a row after that.
• 17:33
  SPEAKER_02: So I think we start out four and four.
• 17:36
  SPEAKER_02: Um because just looking at after that, you've got Texas AM.
• 17:41
  SPEAKER_02: I just don't see how we beat them this year.
• 17:43
  SPEAKER_02: They're they're they're gonna be waiting on us this year, they're gonna be mad at us unless they just turn out to not be as good as everybody says.
• 17:51
  SPEAKER_02: Arkansas and then Kentucky, Alabama, obviously.
• 17:55
  SPEAKER_02: Um and then I think after that we we we come back and we beat Auburn, East Tennessee, and hopefully Ole Miss.
• 18:07
  SPEAKER_02: So that gives us seven.
• 18:08
  SPEAKER_02: So that kind of gives me one of these swing games here.
• 18:12
  SPEAKER_02: And so we're either gonna have to pick up.
• 18:14
  SPEAKER_02: I think it's either gonna have to be Kentucky or Arkansas to make it eight.
• 18:17
  SPEAKER_02: Um, you know, so we'll see.
• 18:21
  SPEAKER_02: That's kind of how I feel like it's gonna play out, though.
• 18:25
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, uh, I'm a little bit different on you.
• 18:27
  SPEAKER_01: On uh we have the same picking the same record, uh eight-four, but um, I have it's a little bit different.
• 18:32
  SPEAKER_01: I I don't think we're gonna start off four-o.
• 18:35
  SPEAKER_01: Uh I think we're gonna I think we'll beat Memphis.
• 18:37
  SPEAKER_01: Uh hopefully we better beat Memphis after last year.
• 18:40
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, um on the road, that's tricky.
• 18:43
  SPEAKER_01: It's a 10 p.m.
• 18:44
  SPEAKER_01: that if that's a Mike Leach game right there.
• 18:45
  SPEAKER_01: That's one of those Mike Leach effects games I was talking about a while ago where you're favored to win, you think you're gonna win.
• 18:50
  SPEAKER_01: And I could easily see a Mike Leach slip up on that one.
• 18:53
  SPEAKER_01: I'm not expecting it at all.
• 18:55
  SPEAKER_01: But if there's a game that I'm talking about, I was talking about earlier where there's a game where in the schedule where you know you're gonna win and then slip up and lose, it would be that one.
• 19:03
  SPEAKER_01: But uh, I think I'm gonna put it as a win.
• 19:05
  SPEAKER_01: LSU on the road, I'm gonna say that's a loss.
• 19:08
  SPEAKER_01: Uh it's a tiger stadium at night.
• 19:10
  SPEAKER_01: I know LSU was not good uh last year.
• 19:13
  SPEAKER_01: Um, and I know we beat him down there two years ago, but that was uh weird situation.
• 19:18
  SPEAKER_01: It was during the day, no one was there.
• 19:20
  SPEAKER_01: It's first Mike Leach game.
• 19:21
  SPEAKER_01: Um, the quarterback Costello broke the SEC record.
• 19:26
  SPEAKER_01: This is a strange day, but uh it's gonna be tough.
• 19:29
  SPEAKER_01: I think.
• 19:29
  SPEAKER_01: Uh, I mean we can hang with them, but I just I just feel like tired state of midnight.
• 19:33
  SPEAKER_01: I I won't chalk that one up for now.
• 19:35
  SPEAKER_01: Uh bowling green, that's gonna be a win.
• 19:38
  SPEAKER_01: It's gonna break out the nose new uniforms.
• 19:40
  SPEAKER_01: Did you see that, Brandon?
• 19:41
  SPEAKER_01: The uniforms just yeah.
• 19:43
  SPEAKER_01: So that'll be cool.
• 19:44
  SPEAKER_01: Um, wearing those, and that one I think will win.
• 19:47
  SPEAKER_01: Texas AM at state.
• 19:49
  SPEAKER_01: Um, like you said, uh you said that one was gonna be a loss.
• 19:52
  SPEAKER_01: Uh, I think that's the work we're gonna differ on that one.
• 19:54
  SPEAKER_01: Uh, you picked LSU as uh state beating LCU, and I said state's gonna lose LCU.
• 19:59
  SPEAKER_01: And you said AM's gonna win.
• 20:01
  SPEAKER_01: I'm going state beating AM.
• 20:03
  SPEAKER_01: The reason why I say that is um AM, Mississippi State is at AM's number recently in the past few years, uh, like last year on the road.
• 20:11
  SPEAKER_01: AM seems like they're highly ranked every year coming into the season, and then they just for some reason or other, they just choke toward the middle of the season and just flatten out.
• 20:20
  SPEAKER_01: And and I don't know, it might be different, it might be jinxed.
• 20:23
  SPEAKER_01: I'm saying this, but but uh I just feel like that being a home game, and we're gonna be uh it's probably if if if we do like you, Brandon, and we're forward what you're saying, for now going into that game, and AM's good, that might be a game day type game, atmosphere.
• 20:38
  SPEAKER_01: I just feel like being a home game in that situation is gonna it's gonna uh we're gonna pull it through and get that one.
• 20:44
  SPEAKER_01: Um Arkansas at home.
• 20:47
  SPEAKER_01: Uh, I'm gonna say that's a win for us, but man, that is that says swing game right there, just like that.
• 20:53
  SPEAKER_01: Kentucky the next week.
• 20:54
  SPEAKER_01: Uh, that's a swing game.
• 20:55
  SPEAKER_01: Both of those two could go either way.
• 20:57
  SPEAKER_01: I could see us winning them and I could see us losing them.
• 21:00
  SPEAKER_01: So I uh I think we win one of those and lose one of them.
• 21:03
  SPEAKER_01: I don't know which one it'll be.
• 21:05
  SPEAKER_01: Alabama, why are we even talking about that?
• 21:07
  SPEAKER_01: It's you know no chance.
• 21:09
  SPEAKER_01: It's put on their forfeit right there.
• 21:12
  SPEAKER_01: It's a forfeit.
• 21:12
  SPEAKER_01: Why are we even playing?
• 21:14
  SPEAKER_01: Uh Auburn's supposed to be garbage this year.
• 21:16
  SPEAKER_01: Uh, so we should win that one, but you know, you never know how it goes.
• 21:21
  SPEAKER_01: But uh uh Georgia, I don't see us winning it, but if there's if there's a game that that we could that what I said a little while ago about the Mike Leach effect losing to Arizona, I think we're gonna be in Arizona, but if we're gonna lose one, that would be the one.
• 21:34
  SPEAKER_01: If there's a game going into it, we know we're gonna lose and Mike Leach is gonna pull it off, it's that game, in my opinion, Georgia.
• 21:40
  SPEAKER_01: Uh it might be you all might be listening, think I'm crazy.
• 21:42
  SPEAKER_01: Georgia just won the national championship, but I know that, but it's a home game, and and uh I I feel like that's one of the ones that that Mike Leach could surprise us if we could win that one, but I'm gonna talk it up as a loss.
• 21:54
  SPEAKER_02: But I don't I don't I wonder who they play like after they play us and before they play us, Georgia.
• 21:59
  SPEAKER_01: They got Bama or AM or somebody.
• 22:01
  SPEAKER_01: So it's uh okay, we got we got them in a good time of the schedule.
• 22:05
  SPEAKER_01: We're so that's in our favor on that.
• 22:07
  SPEAKER_01: But so um so it'll be interesting to see.
• 22:11
  SPEAKER_01: Um and then East Tennessee, you know, we're gonna blow them out.
• 22:14
  SPEAKER_01: And then uh the egg bowl, here we go.
• 22:16
  SPEAKER_01: What I said a little while ago, you know.
• 22:18
  SPEAKER_01: Uh man, it's so hard to predict what's gonna happen on November 24, 2022, in August of 2022, because the way the season falls out, you know, if we do as good as we think we're gonna do coming into that game, we would be confident as anything we're gonna win.
• 22:37
  SPEAKER_01: If we slip up and have some injuries and losses coming into that game, we're not gonna feel confident at all.
• 22:42
  SPEAKER_01: And I can see us losing.
• 22:44
  SPEAKER_01: So that's the ultimate swing game.
• 22:46
  SPEAKER_01: I I don't know what to pick at right now.
• 22:48
  SPEAKER_01: I I would think that we would win the egg bowl because we are, like I said earlier, the more veteran team.
• 22:53
  SPEAKER_01: Ole Mess last two years were better than us all around.
• 22:56
  SPEAKER_01: And I feel like losing the losing a uh quarterback like they did, and Matt Carell, who is a just a generation type player, they're gonna have some holes to fill.
• 23:05
  SPEAKER_01: And uh I feel real confident in Will Rogers and our offense and our defense supposed to be strong.
• 23:10
  SPEAKER_01: So um I would think state's gonna win that.
• 23:13
  SPEAKER_01: But uh what I said earlier about Mike Leachon and drive was if that plays out for state old miss, like it did Washington, Washington State, then it it you know he might lose a bunch of them to them, but hopefully that's not the case, and we can bring the egg back to start well.
• 23:27
  SPEAKER_01: But uh, but yeah, it's uh there it's I'm saying eight and four, but this thing could easily I mean I could see us going nine and three and ten and two at best, and I could see us going six and six or four and eight.
• 23:39
  SPEAKER_01: So it's so hard to pick right now, but I'm going with you eight and four.
• 23:43
  SPEAKER_01: I think we're both agreeing the same.
• 23:45
  SPEAKER_01: Yep.
• 23:45
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, I like your uh I kind of like your thoughts about Georgia.
• 23:48
  SPEAKER_02: I've kind of just written that off, but I didn't think about it that way.
• 23:52
  SPEAKER_02: So um I I would take a loss to Arizona and a win over Georgia.
• 23:56
  SPEAKER_02: I'd be fine with that.
• 23:58
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
• 23:58
  SPEAKER_02: Um that would be especially because then then you'd have the momentum you'd be going into East Tennessee, and then you'd have some momentum going to the egg bowl.
• 24:06
  SPEAKER_02: I think that would be I wouldn't mind that.
• 24:09
  SPEAKER_02: Absolutely.
• 24:11
  SPEAKER_01: Well, but the the other doesn't pan out like 2014 because you know, we were all fired up, undefeated, number one, and then the season just just took a down downhill, you know, losing to Bama.
• 24:22
  SPEAKER_01: After they lost that game to Bama, it was just like like you knew they were gonna lose the egg ball.
• 24:28
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, it's just it's so much to play for.
• 24:31
  SPEAKER_01: I I do not want that to happen, even though it was such a successful season.
• 24:34
  SPEAKER_01: I'd rather uh heck, I'd rather just finish seven and five if we're gonna end up 10 and 2 like that.
• 24:39
  SPEAKER_01: You know, if we go 10 and it'll be meaningful 10 and two season where you play for the SEC championship game, you know, not like it did in 2014.
• 24:48
  SPEAKER_01: So uh, but um it's gonna be interesting.
• 24:51
  SPEAKER_01: So I'm anxious to see how everything plays out.
• 24:53
  SPEAKER_01: And I think the picks are gonna be fun.
• 24:55
  SPEAKER_01: I hope we'll get some involvement with people, our listeners out there, and yeah, where they have to say about it.
• 25:00
  SPEAKER_02: So well, my last like parting thoughts is I just uh I hate that you know, we have this veteran team this year and uh seems to be you know like we're we're gonna be be pretty good, but we also happen to have like the toughest schedule in the country.
• 25:16
  SPEAKER_02: And so I just I hate that it has to be that way.
• 25:18
  SPEAKER_02: I wish that uh Alabama or or somebody would be down so that we would feel like we had a shot at the West, but it just doesn't feel that way this year, even with the veterans.
• 25:29
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, you know, in Dan Mullen's first year in 2009, we had the excuse me, we had the nation's uh toughest schedule that year.
• 25:36
  SPEAKER_01: If you remember that year, that was the only year in the Dan Mullen era that we did not go to a bowl game.
• 25:41
  SPEAKER_01: We finished five and six that year.
• 25:43
  SPEAKER_01: And we should have finished six and uh win a five and seven, we should have finished six and six and going to a ball game.
• 25:48
  SPEAKER_01: Um, that was the the LSU game that you know we had Tyson Lee last year on our podcast talking about that game.
• 25:55
  SPEAKER_01: Um, you know, if you give it to Booby four times in a row, you're gonna get in and win get the win.
• 25:59
  SPEAKER_01: And we didn't do that, so that one loss right there kept us from going to a ball game every year during the Dan Mullins tenure.
• 26:05
  SPEAKER_01: But uh that year we had the nation's uh hardest schedule.
• 26:08
  SPEAKER_01: So it looks like we have that nice uh title again to our schedule this year.
• 26:13
  SPEAKER_01: So we got a got a veteran group, and you know, I've never I've been a Mississippi State fan in my whole life, and I've never seen the quarterback room and quarterback depth chart as it is right now.
• 26:25
  SPEAKER_01: So it's just insane.
• 26:27
  SPEAKER_01: Uh we got all these four-star guys on the bench right now, and yeah, and we'll and Will Rogers is just slinging it right and left.
• 26:34
  SPEAKER_01: So I I don't know what's gonna happen.
• 26:36
  SPEAKER_01: I I can see some of those guys on the bench getting mad and transferring out because I mean technically junior, uh, if he comes back next year as a senior, he still has an extra COVID year if he wants to do that.
• 26:46
  SPEAKER_01: Uh so he really be our starting quarterback uh for three more seasons.
• 26:51
  SPEAKER_01: So um it's gonna be interesting to see what happens to those guys uh on the bench, but um throughout the years to come.
• 26:58
  SPEAKER_01: But Will has a chance if he stays all five years.
• 27:00
  SPEAKER_01: I was telling someone the other day, he could go down as the nation's um number one um leader in career passing yards in college football history, which is huge.
• 27:12
  SPEAKER_01: That's never it broken again, you know.
• 27:14
  SPEAKER_01: Um so I mean it's it's up for grabs.
• 27:17
  SPEAKER_01: Uh I was listening to a podcast yesterday and they were talking about their predicted will throw for 5,000 yards this season, which would be huge.
• 27:25
  SPEAKER_01: Uh so I mean he could if he stays three more seasons and and does that, that would be something else.
• 27:31
  SPEAKER_01: But uh, but uh of course, uh I mean, I'm sure if he gets to offer to go to the NFL, he'll take that.
• 27:37
  SPEAKER_01: But um it's just gonna be interesting to see what happens.
• 27:40
  SPEAKER_01: Uh that's that's a good good thing to have, you know, to have too many quarterbacks on your roster.
• 27:44
  SPEAKER_01: I've seen us so many years where our quarterback gets hurt and then they have to throw in someone, it's just no playing experience, and just so uh it's a good problem to have, but you know, in the long run, when they see that they're not gonna step on the field for three more seasons, I could see transfers out happening, especially in the day and age where we live in the transfer portal.
• 28:05
  SPEAKER_01: But it's pretty cool.
• 28:06
  SPEAKER_01: I think that's a good sign for Mike Leach.
• 28:08
  SPEAKER_01: Uh, people want to come play for him, they know he's gonna throw the ball around.
• 28:12
  SPEAKER_01: So that's uh that's um that's a good recruiting tool having him here.
• 28:16
  SPEAKER_01: And I think that's gonna um it's gonna keep that pattern up going on.
• 28:21
  SPEAKER_01: So I think we'll be getting recruiting like that.
• 28:23
  SPEAKER_01: So uh, but it will be interesting to to uh how it plays out.
• 28:27
  SPEAKER_01: But I just hope Will has a fantastic year.
• 28:29
  SPEAKER_01: He's a great, great guy.
• 28:31
  SPEAKER_01: Um, hope I don't know if you saw this or not, but he uh he and my make a wish did a partnership together.
• 28:38
  SPEAKER_01: So every time he throws a touchdown pass this season, uh it's uh proceeds will be going to make a wish foundation.
• 28:44
  SPEAKER_01: So it's nice can be awesome.
• 28:46
  SPEAKER_01: So if he's lined up on the goal line, people get mad.
• 28:49
  SPEAKER_01: Why are we throwing it on the goal line not running in?
• 28:51
  SPEAKER_01: And he completes a touchdown pass.
• 28:52
  SPEAKER_01: Don't get mad because make a wish is getting get proceeds for that.
• 28:56
  SPEAKER_01: So uh really cool.
• 28:58
  SPEAKER_01: He he had a video yesterday that he shared on his Twitter with a girl that I believe she has a brain tumor, is not doing very well, and she has a make-a-wish trip to Hawaii.
• 29:07
  SPEAKER_01: And man, I can't say enough good things about Will Rogers.
• 29:09
  SPEAKER_01: He's a he's a class act uh off the field and and a leader on the field.
• 29:14
  SPEAKER_01: So we're very blessed to have him as our starting quarterback.
• 29:16
  SPEAKER_01: So um hope hope he has a great year and and uh and we do well.
• 29:21
  SPEAKER_02: Yes, sir.
• 29:23
  SPEAKER_02: Well, I'm excited and uh I hope that we can get some people interested in the pick'em.
• 29:27
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• 29:38
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• 29:42
  SPEAKER_02: Go Dogs.
• 29:43
  SPEAKER_01: Absolutely.
• 29:44
  SPEAKER_01: See you man.
• 29:45
  SPEAKER_02: All right, Johnny.
• 29:46
  SPEAKER_02: Talk to you later.
• 29:47
  SPEAKER_01: All right, thank you.